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OPH State Lab Forms Now Available Electronically: Updated Guidance for COVID-19 Testing at the State Laboratory

The use of Telemedicine Technologies with Established Patient

(LA HAN)--Updated Guidance for COVID-19 Testing at the State Lab & Patient Under Investigation Form

Notice to COVID-19 Temporary Permit Holders

Heroine: A Deadly Resurgeance

Telehealth for Allied Health Care Providers

Continuing Education Tracker Update

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Private Radiological Technologists

Podiatrists

Multi-Specialty Conference on Sarcoidosis

25% Decrease in opioid production in 2017

Special Call Meeting

Louisiana Department of Health Reporting Surge of Fatal Drug Overdoses

Scammers claiming to be with the LSBME

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Application & Instructions for Initial Licensure - Podiatry

Online Board Orientation

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LA State Registers-5 Year Archive

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LaMED DashBoard Now Available

LDH Provider Notice: Medical and Surgical Procedures

LSBME Legislative Update - 2019

Updated Interim Guidance on Evaluation and Testing Criteria for Suspected COVID-19 Cases

Interim Guidance on 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Travelers from Wuhan, China

Health Alert Regarding Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM)

Medicaid Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee

Hepatitis A Outbreak (Update)

Moonlighting Guidance

CDC Update re: Hepatitis A Outbreak

Guidance For Physicians On Safe Purchase Of Drugs From Pharmaceutical Distributors

Occupational Therapy Assistants

Office Based Surgery

Interstate Medical Licensure Compact

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Hydrocodone Combination Products Re-Scheduled

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Integrative and Complementary Medicine Committee

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Board Meeting - March 23-24, 2020

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Notice to Licensees re Continuing Education Requirements

LSMS Roundtable Discussion

Guidance for Clinicians Caring for Individuals Recently Evacuated from Afghanistan

LDH - Hepatitis C Announcement

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Louisiana Health Alert Network (LA HAN)--Steps for Community- and Faith-Based Organizations to Take to Prepare for Coronavirus

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Physician Assistant Advisory Committee Vacancy

Zika in the ED: How Emergency Care Staff Can Take Action

Notice of a Large Mumps Outbreak in Northwest Arkansas

CDC's Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Webinar

Therapeutic Marijuana Guidance

Background Check Fee

LSBME Legislative Update

LSBME Newsletter-June 2018

Risks of Benzodiazepine Use in Patients with Chronic Pain

Please see below from the Louisiana Office of Public Health:

Louisiana currently has the highest influenza rates in the United States. Louisiana influenza activity has significantly increased Statewide over recent weeks, and health care providers should be vigilant about diagnosing and treating patients with the virus. All healthcare providers in the State should be actively promoting and recommending the flu vaccine to all eligible people.

Influenza activity is already widespread in most of Louisiana and increasing across the rest of the country.

CDC recommends a yearly flu vaccine as the first and most important step in protecting against flu and its potentially serious complications.

Clinicians are encouraged to treat suspected influenza in high-risk outpatients, those with progressive disease, and all hospitalized patients with antiviral medications as soon as possible, regardless of negative rapid influenza diagnostic test (RIDT) results and without waiting for RT-PCR testing results. Early antiviral treatment works best, but treatment may offer benefit when started up to 4-5 days after symptom onset in hospitalized patients. Early antiviral treatment can reduce influenza morbidity and mortality.

. It can reduce flu illnesses, doctors’ visits, and missed work and school due to flu, as well as prevent flu-related hospitalizations. Flu vaccine also has been shown to be life-saving in children. In fact, a 2017 

 showed that flu vaccination can significantly reduce a child’s risk of dying from influenza.

While influenza vaccination is the best way to prevent influenza, a history of influenza vaccination does not rule out influenza virus infection in an ill patient with clinical signs and symptoms compatible with influenza. Vaccination status should not impede the initiation of prompt antiviral treatment.

Assess need for antibiotics and pneumococcal vaccination

Because certain bacterial infections can produce symptoms similar to influenza and bacterial infections can occur as a complication of influenza, bacterial infections should be considered and appropriately treated, if suspected. In addition, because pneumococcal infections are a serious complication of influenza infection, current pneumococcal vaccine recommendations for adults 65 years of age or older, as well as adults and children at increased risk for invasive pneumococcal disease due to chronic underlying medical conditions, should be followed (see 

Pneumococcal Vaccination: Information for

Healthcare Professionals [http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/pneumo/vac-PCV13-adults.htm]

Pneumococcal Vaccination: What Everyone Should Know [http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-

It is not too late to obtain influenza vaccination for this flu season. Vaccine is still available at community pharmacies, doctors' offices, and local public health units. Visit 

Very High Influenza Activity in Louisiana: A call to vaccinate